Danish sub-suppliers – and sub-suppliers in spe – have Fehmarn Belt Suppliers who work to procure tasks for the members. On the German side of the Fehmarn Belt, they have Baltic Facility Solutions, which works for the same purpose for small and medium-sized North German companies.
Director Mirko Schönfeldt, along with many others – including representatives of FB Suppliers – participated in Deutsche Bahn’s marking of the first sod on the work on the 88 kilometer railway from Puttgarden to Kiel on Friday. He was generally satisfied that something now seems to be happening:
– Finally
– Finally, Deutsche Bahn, as the project manager, has created the necessary conditions to be able to realize the completion of the railway connection and especially the new Fehmarnsundtunnel together with our Danish friends, says Mirko Schönfeldt to FemernReport.
In connection with the first sod-breaking, there was no shortage of speeches from both German, Danish and EU honoraries about the Fehmarn Belt region’s promising future once the tunnel opens in 2029. But there was one single thing that was not talked about as much: the Fehmarn Sound Tunnel.
Will build own element factory
Deutsche Bahn has already announced that construction is scheduled to start in 2026, that it should probably be completed by 2029 – and that it requires its own element factory in Großenbrode. However, the Baltic FS director does not see much sense in the last point:
Not logistically sustainable
– Now it is crucial that the project managers in the short term willingly consider the advice of so many engineers and that the shorter tunnel elements are produced in Rødbyhavn. This avoids burdening the environment in Großenbrode or Fehmarn unnecessarily with an element factory that costs a lot of money and time and will never be used again. Logistically speaking, Großenbrode and Fehmarn cannot support an additional element factory either, says Mirko Schönfeldt.
